| Title: |
Directionality for nuclear recoils in a Liquid Argon TPC |
| Authors: |
Agnes, Paolo; Ahmad, Iftikhar; Albergo, Sebastiano; Albuquerque, Ivone; Ave, M.; Bonivento, Walter M.; Bottino, Bianca; Cadeddu, Matteo; Caminata, Alessio; Canci, Nicola; Cappello, Gigi; Caravati, M.; Cataudella, V.; Cesarano, R.; Cicalo', Corrado; Covone, Giovanni; Davini, Stefano; de Candia, Antonio; De Rosa, Gianfranca; Dionisi, Carlo; Dolganov, G.; Filippis, G.De; Fiorillo, Giuliana; Franco, Davide; Galbiati, Cristiano; Garcia Sosa, Alejandro; Gulino, Marisa; Ippolito, Valerio; Kemmerich, N.; Kimura, M.; Kuss, Michael; La Commara, Marco; Li, X.; Mari, Stefano Maria; Martoff, C.J.; Matteucci, Giuseppe; Oleynikov, V.; Pallavicini, Marco; Pandola, Luciano; Pino, Noemi; Rescigno, Marco; Rode, J.; Sanfilippo, Simone; Suvorov, Y.; Testera, Gemma; Tricomi, Alessia Rita; Wada, M.; Wang, H.; Wang, Y.; Zakhary, P. |
| Source: |
J.Phys.Conf.Ser., 2586(2023), 1, 012119, (2023-09-01) ; INPC, 28th International Nuclear Physics Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2022-09-11 |
| Publisher Information: |
IOP |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN): Open Access Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
nucleus: recoil; argon: nucleus; time projection chamber: liquid argon; dark matter: detector; dark matter: direct detection; n: irradiation; scintillation counter; semiconductor detector |
| Description: |
Directional sensitivity to nuclear recoils would provide a smoking gun for a possible discovery of dark matter in the form of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). A hint of directional dependence of the response of a dual-phase argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) was found in the SCENE experiment. Given the potential importance of such a capability in the framework of dark matter searches, a new dedicated experiment, ReD (Recoil Directionality), was designed by the Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration, in order to scrutinise this hint. A small dual-phase argon TPC was irradiated with neutrons produced by the p($^{7}$Li,$^{7}$Be)n reaction using the 15 MV TANDEM accelerator of the INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy, so as to produce argon nuclear recoils in the range (20 - 100) keV of interest for dark matter searches. Energy and direction of nuclear recoils are inferred by the detection of the elastically-scattered neutron by a set of scintillation detectors. Events were selected by gating of the associated $^{7}$Be, which is detected by a telescope of Si detectors. |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://www.openaccessrepository.it/communities/inspire-hep; https://inspirehep.net/literature/2704181 |
| DOI: |
10.1088/1742-6596/2586/1/012119 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2586/1/012119; https://inspirehep.net/literature/2704181 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.36C78003 |
| Database: |
BASE |